Anthropic's new Dreaming feature reads session logs offline, finds repeat patterns, and merges duplicate memories into a tighter file Original session data stays untouched, only the consolidated memory artifact is rewritten This is not vector search and not fine-tuning, it is a separate offline pass on existing memory entries Long-running agents and repeated workflows benefit, one-shot agents see almost no gain Currently in testing alongside Result Loops, Multi-Agent Orchestration, and Webhooks public betas Anthropic announced Dreaming on May 6 2026 at the SF dev conference. The feature is in testing, not GA. Most of yesterday's coverage labelled it "agent memory consolidation" and moved on. The mechanics are more interesting than the headline gives away, and the practical implications are the part nobody talked about. What dreaming actually does Dreaming runs offline. No live request, no user prompt, no tool call. The agent is not awake when it happens.…